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astro-ph.HE2022★ 27 cited
Cocoon breakout and escape from the ejecta of neutron star mergers
Hamid Hamidani, Kunihito Ioka
The cocoon is an inevitable product of a jet propagating through ambient matter, and takes a fair fraction of the jet energy. In short gamma-ray bursts, the ambient matter is the e…
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Cocoon cooling emission in neutron star mergers
Hamid Hamidani, Kunihito Ioka
In the gravitational wave event GW170817, there was a hours gap before electromagnetic (EM) observations, without detection of the cocoon. The cocoon is heated by a \text…